Brest region: members of political parties constitute only 2% of candidates for precinct election commissions
Almost a
half of candidates for the precinct election commissions of the Brest region
were nominated by collection of electors’ signatures, while political parties
nominated just 2% of pretenders.
The official website of the Brest City Executive Committee, www.brest-region.by published
information about the nomination of candidates for the precinct election
commissions. According to the published data, there are 11,453 pretenders for
membership in 986 precinct commissions. 5.387 of them (47%) were nominated by
collecting electors’ signatures, 1,999 (17.5%) were nominated by collectives of
enterprises and institutions, 246 (2.1%) – by political parties and 3,821
(33.4%) – by NGOs.
The leader among the political parties is the Belarusian Popular Front who
nominated 90 representatives, and the official Federation of Trade Unions of
Belarus holds leadership among NGOs – 1,478 nominees.
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